Question B550 Asrock Phantom Gaming 4 - memory upgrade/swap

[Jeff H]

Guys,

I've been running a B550 Phantom Gaming 4 board and Ryzen 5 3600 since late Winter 2021 (earlier this year). System has performed flawlessly. Current memory set up is a Crucial Ballistix DDR4-3200 16GB kit (2x8GB) in slots A2 and B2. I set up XMP profile to run at 3200, and system has been totally stable.

I decided to up the memory with an additional 16GB kit (same as above), but then read of memory slow downs when you populate all four memory slots. So, I picked up a GSkill Ripjaws V DDR4-3200 32GB kit (2x16GB). I'm not worried about getting rid of the two Crucial kits, as I'll post them for a good price on Craigslist.

My main question is this - prior to swapping out the Crucial sticks for the GSkill sticks, should I disable the XMP profile? Any other suggestions I should follow?

TIA,

Jeff

 

[kschendel]

You shouldn't have to pre-disable XMP, although it wouldn't hurt anything. I'd expect the board to re-train on the new memory at non XMP speed, and then you can go into the BIOS and (re-) enable XMP for the new RAM.

 

[Jeff H]

kschendel, thanks for the reply. I'm probably making more of this than need be.

 

[MadScientist]

I have your same MB. I tried installing 4-8Gb Corair Vengeance 3600 ram. No go with its XMP profile. Best I can do is 3200. I also have an Asrock B550M Pro 4 MB with 2-16Gb G.Skill 3200 ram and it runs fine at its XMP profile, so, no guarentee, but the G.Skill ram should run ok on your MB at its XMP profile.

 

[Jeff H]

Mad Scientist,

Thanks for the info. This is more of a "whim" thing than anything else, as I don't do anything that requires 32GB. That said, I got the GSkill's at the right price, and I'll have no trouble selling my two 16GB (2-8GB) Crucial kits on Craigslist.